When Nana Ware came to live with us in 1939 she was 80 years old, blind, crippled with arthritis, and confined to her chair. Her body was confined, but not her will or spirit. She became our sitter, confidante, and friend during the WW II years. Although physically challenged, she had a clear mind, powerful faith, and an abiding confidence in people. Nana maintained control by telling stories. She told folk tales, fairy tales, stories of her Irish girlhood and early years in American of the 1800's. Each chapter begins with ...
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When Nana Ware came to live with us in 1939 she was 80 years old, blind, crippled with arthritis, and confined to her chair. Her body was confined, but not her will or spirit. She became our sitter, confidante, and friend during the WW II years. Although physically challenged, she had a clear mind, powerful faith, and an abiding confidence in people. Nana maintained control by telling stories. She told folk tales, fairy tales, stories of her Irish girlhood and early years in American of the 1800's. Each chapter begins with the memory of a family event during the 1940's, and ends with one of the tales Nana told to put it in perspective. She saw the bright side and told life affirming stories that captured a people, an attitude, and a time. A time when you relied on your family and made the best of what you had. When burdens were shared, and people triumphed over adversity in little ways, to be sure, but on a regular and continuing basis. She told how her mother captured a leprechaun in the woods near the prehistoric forts of rural Ireland. The tale of the kind woman in her village called Agnes, The Witch of Lixnaw, and how she saved the failing farm of a kind landlord. village miser and misanthrope. How the sunken German U-Boat near our cottage in Maine reminded Nana of the magic salt machine stolen from her village. The Saga of how her father dealt with the banshee that howled all night and kept people terrified in their homes. The book is warm, funny, thougtfu1, and captures the spirit, wisdom, and humor of a good and strong woman, who touched so many lives for the better. The book will amuse, entertain, and warm the hearts of every member of the family.
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